On April 19, 2019, the American "Cygnus” CRS-11 (NG-11 “S.S. Roger Chaffee”) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by American astronaut Anne McClain inside the space station at 09:28 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 11:31 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3800 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 11th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS.

On April 15, 2019 American astronaut Owen Kay Garriott passed away at his home in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88. Owen Garriott flew aboard the US “Skylab” space station during the “Skylab-3” mission and on the Space Shuttle Columbia (the STS-9/Spacelab-1 mission). He spent a total of 70 days in space.